Love Trees - "Practice Turning People into Trees" Ram Dass

I love trees. I know they are very, very patient with us. They haven't revolted yet, even though we have cut down many of their brethren. Andy Skadberg

 

When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don...’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are. 

 ~ Ram Dass

This is the first full-length shot of "The President" - the biggest tree on earth.

It's in Sequoia National Park, 3,200 years old and 247 feet tall.

The portrait was taken by National Geographic, and it's actually a mosaic, made up of 126 photographs in order to capture the whole thing.

The President is not the tallest tree in the world – that honor goes to a California redwood, which stands 379... feet (116 meters) tall – but in terms of mass, it's the largest.
....To give you some perspective, that tiny red dot at the bottom on the left is a person!

 



Yes, thanks Andy Skadberg, many people do not know the difference between Redwoods and Sequoia. The Redwoods are taller, darker red and thinner. While the Sequoias are lighter red, and thicker. The most famous one was the one that had a tunnel in it that cars drove through. That one fell down years ago, but still lying there in pieces. I prefer the Sequoias as there is much more space around them being in the mountains. The Redwoods are in virtual rainforests being on the coast.